Hello to all the wonderful fellow warriors battling their way through this toxic mercury world,

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Three and a half weeks ago, a dentist placed a large "permanent" mercury amalgam filling on a broken molar that had had a series of breakage and temporary filling problems for years.

After the anesthetic wore off, my mouth--lips--swelled up like balloons (at first I thought eat your heart out, Angelina Jolie!) and I acquired a strong metallic taste that felt like I was carrying around batteries in my mouth... I immediately pursued research into the possiblity of poisoning from my filling, and of course, not only did I discover the horrible truth of mercury amalgam poisoning (something I'd unfortunately only paid vague attention to in the past), but BINGO, also discovered that 90% of the health problems I've been living with over the last 10 years or so are known consequences of mercury toxicity.

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Just some of the health problems I've had (and that have always mystified my doctors, who invariably shrug and say "in your case, it's idiopathic: we just don't know why this is happenign to you") that I now know are from the mercury that has been leaking for years from my other fillings include:


FMS
MVP (Mitral valve prolapse heart condition, & palpitaions)
Inability to breathe fully--feeling of being strangled when I try to breathe
constant gas and burping
Chronic severe kidney and bladder infections
Brain fog
Memory problems, esp. short-term (I don't think people believe me when I tell them this, but I literally can never remember what i did th eday before)
Memorization/retention problems: can't learn new information (this one is REALLY tough being a PhD student)
Crackling at the base of my neck (really disconcerting)
Clicking and popping in my joints (esp wrists and ankles)
Candida
Bruxism (severe)
and many many more significant health problems

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I immediately set to work to find a wholistic mercury-free dentist to help me with removal. This was a challenge since I currently live in a very small city. However, I found one in a large city --Chicago-- which is about 2 1/2 hrs away. The dentist practices safe removal protocol and is willing to see me on wednesday, and based on how desperate I sounded over the phone and how certain I am that I want the filling out, she is going to remove the filling on the same day (Wednesday) as my initial consultation with her. Her staff (on the phone) said that the dentist would almost certainly be replacing the filling with an inlay and that this will cost $1400 US. I am going to have to go into debt to do this, but I see no other option. I feel I need this evil thing out of my mouth NOW!!! before it causes an even further deterioration to my health.

I do understand about waiting to remove the other remaining fillings, and to do them slowly, no more than 2 at a time, and with 2-3 month intervals between removals.

But here's my problem.

I have to write a major PhD exam in a few weeks. (I am supposed to be studying for it now--yeah right.) I do not have the option of rescheduling it because I have already postponed it twice (due, surprise surprise, to all the health problems I've been having). If I do not write this exam on the scheduled date (July 11), I really seriously risk being kicked out of my program--and therefore losing my professional future.

I'm terrified at the prospect of getting my mercury filling removed on wednesday and then suffering debilitating mercury backlash symptoms so bad that I woudlbe unable to study for and write the exam.

But I'm equally terrified at the prospect of putting off the removal a minute longer than I have to.

This is what I need advice on!

I know that if this was case of fillings that have been there for a long time, a month longer wouldn't necessarily make a huge difference, but in this case we're talking about a majore deposit of poison into my system 3 1/2 weeks ago that I have been desperate to get out--would have gone immediately back to the ignorant dentist who put it in and isnisted he remove it, except, thank god, I learned about the dangers fo going that route!

So I'm struck numb with apprehension (not to mention with mercury poisoning).

Which do i do?

A) Go ahead with the removal on wednesday and possibly fail my exam due to unforeseable fallout/reactions

or

B) postpone the removal until right after my exam--a month from now, and until then live with the filling that is causingn such a huge and terifying toxic reaction


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FYI
While the host of symptoms I have been living with for years are chronic, this last filling triggered a number of very scary new and acute symptoms including

Night sweats (I also have these really bad around this time of year 5-6 years ago, too)
pains all over
taste of chemical "fumes" in my mouth and throat
severe numbness and tingling in arms, hands, legs
Strong heat and burning sensation in L eye and feels like "fumes" coming from it…
Coughing, "fumes" in back of throat
Burning feeling deep in stomach
Pain in L eye, neck, top of head (L side); L eyeball very painful, feeling as if it is bulging out
Frequent heart palpitations
Numbness comes and goes in arms
Chronic pain in back of neck (stronger on L side) and lower back
Numbness in lower left leg
Burning sensation on cheekbone
Pain and cracking and popping in all joints: wrists, ankles, base of neck.
Feeling weak and flu-like
and more

All I have been able to do for the past 2-3 days is research mercury toxicity online. My studying lies abandoned, and I am teetering on the brink of despair.

Exacerbating problems:
My financial situation is not great
My husband and i are dealing with a bedbug infestation, bedbgus that came back with him from a hotel in NYC in March. I don't even want to go into it right now, but bedbugs are INCREDIBLY difficult, nearly impossible to eradicate, and that's WITH toxic insecticides. This is unfortunately our second experience with bedbugs (we had them in 2004 when we lived in Europe for a year; i got so badly poisoned from insecticides that time that I had a seizure and then toxic hepatitis that lastedmore than a year, not to mention hair falling out. I SWORE that I wouldnever put my liver through anyhtign like that again, and then here we are, 3 years later with bedbugs AGAIN, and, trust me, no choice, unless we want to live with then bedbugs).

So that's my situation in a (a large and gregarious) nutshell.

I'd much appreciate thoughts or advice from experienced mercury-fighters with regard to what i should do on Wednesday--go or postpone?

Yesterday I bought activated charcoal to take on the day of removal, along with some of the other things mentioned on this forum, and I will be ordering algin today (actually, I just tried to order it now by phone, but I got an answerng machine; I'll be trying again).


Thank you for taking the time to read all this,
Ordinary Person



P.S. Has anyone noticed by chance that their health problems have tended to get worse recurringly around a specific time of year? My husband and I have realized that for several years now, my health falls apart around Midsummer/mid-June, and I spend th erest of the summer battling it to get things under control. I just thought that was very interesting, and wondered if anyone else has experienced a similar cyclical aspect.